Angélica Negrón

This past few months have been really busy for me working on new pieces for some friends, playing fun shows with Balún and moving to a nice new place! There are many great things happening and I wanted to share some of them with you.  The amazing janus trio just finished recording my piece “Drawings for Meyoko” for their upcoming album on New Amsterdam Records titled “i am not” which will be out on November 2010. All of the pieces in the album sound incredible and I feel really lucky to be a part of this project!  Visit their website to learn more about how you can become a part of this historic album and get a full belly out of it too!

I’m also very excited to announce that I’ve been selected to be one of three 2011 MATA Commissionees and will be working on a new piece for Cantori New York for the MATA Festival 2011 which will be held on May 2011 at (Le) Poisson Rouge.  The piece will be for choir and live electronics and will feature myself on voice, toys and electronics.

I also recently finished a new piece for Beaten Paths Percussion Duo + Christa Van Alstine titled “Four Ways To Eat Cereal” which will be premiered on October 29th at Tenri Cultural Center and my recent piece for Cadillac Moon Ensemble “Quimbombó” received a Robert Starer Award from the Graduate Center.  Also in the works is a new piece for the very talented percussion trio the howl (theory) and a new work for my friend toy pianist Phyllis Chen in which she’ll be playing lots of tiny things.

On another note, my students from Brooklyn Phil’s SRI Program in PS 250 were in the Daily News and I couldn’t be prouder! Here is a link to download the article and read about these wonderful third graders.

Finally some nice days in the city with the sun shining! It’s a perfect month for going out to concerts and I would like to invite you to some! For the past months I’ve been working on a few new pieces for my friends from Cadillac Moon Ensemble and Iktus Percussion Quartet.  Both pieces will be premiered this month (check the events page for more info) in really exciting concerts with very interesting programs.  For both of these pieces I’ve been trying new things: in the piece I wrote for CME I’m using some rhythms and melodic gestures from Puerto Rico and in the piece I wrote for Iktus I’m using only found percussion instruments like playing cards, crystal glasses, hand fans and newspapers, among other things.

I’m also working on a new piece about different ways of eating cereal so stay tuned!

Arturo en el Barco will be performing in Redhooker’s CD Release Party this Sunday January 31st at (Le) Poisson Rouge.  This show it’s going to be really nice and I can’t wait to play again with everyone!

When I started “Arturo en el Barco” five years ago, I originally thought of the project as a live chamber ensemble even though it took the form of a solo endeavor.  But now it’s finally happening! We are finally an ensemble. I’m very happy to announce the debut of the new AEEB as part of the great Archipelago Series from New Amsterdam Records. We’ll be playing on Friday Nov. 20th at the lovely Galapagos Arts Space premiering a set of six new songs under the title “Let the Sun Shine on Me and Make Me Feel Special”.  Matt Marks (french horn), Andie Springer (violin), Insia Malik (violin), Evelyn Farny (cello), Beth Meyers (viola, banjo) and José Olivares (electronics) will join me in this new adventure!

Missy Mazzoli’s awesome Victoire will also be playing that night previewing  some new material from their upcoming NewAm album!

You can get tickets for a discounted price at:
https://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=NEW170 if you use the discount code: NEWAM

Hope to see you there!

The Circles and Lines concert was reviewed in the NY Times! Click here to read the full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/arts/music/03circles.html?_r=1&ref=music

Circles and Lines is a new composers consortium devoted to providing a diverse program representative of current trends in the art music scene.

Composers and works:

Noam Faingold – Berlin Songs and Continuums, for solo cello: Intermezzo – “Etiquette”
Angelica Negron – I Can Still Hear You and They Swim Under My Bed
Conrad Winslow – Dilating Music For Four Trombones, “Guidonian Hand” and Flying Patterns
Dylan Glatthorn – Imagining Paradise
Eric lemmon – The Cure at Troy

Tickets are on sale now!

Price: $10

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 9:30pm @ Le Poisson Rouge

158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY

FMEL 2009 is a space that unites electronic and digital concepts of sound, music and art created by Latin American artists with a global perspective for its fusion and diffusion. As such, the objective of our festival is to expand and enhance Latin American digital culture in Chicago through global cultural connections.

Thursday, August 27, 2009
7 PM

Chicago Cultural Center (Theater)
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL

Free admission

Antiguo Autómata Mexicano (MX, Static Discos)
Balún (Puerto Rico / NY, Brilliante Records)

Visuals:

Andrew Nicolay & Giroscopio (Charly Garcia)

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Friday, August 28, 2009
8 PM

National Museum of Mexican Arts
1852 W. 19th Street
Chicago, IL

Suggested donation: $5

Arturo en el Barco (NY, Carte Postale/Observatory)
Manrico Montero (MX, Mandorla)
Algorythm & Blues (MX, Static Discos)

Visuals:

Juan Pablo Villegas (MX, Treelike)

http://www.fmelchicago.com

Molly Sheridan wrote a very nice article about my music for NewMusicBox.  You can read the article here.

I wrote the Global Ear column for The Wire magazine’s April 2009 issue. It is out today so please check it out!

I’ve been working for a while curating this concert for MATA and now it’s almost here. PLAY! will showcase new works for toy piano, balloons, music boxes, vintage toys and electronics with performances by the new music group TRANSIT, balloon artist Judy Dunaway, vocalist Jennifer Walshe, percussionist Douglas Perkins and very special guest Margaret Leng Tan, pioneer in the use of toy instruments.   Tristan Perich will be premiering a new piece for three toy pianos and three-channel 1-bit tones and TRANSIT will also be premiering my new piece “What I’m Trying To Say Is…” which features a Speak & Spell toy!  You can read my curatorial statement for this concert here.